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Judging by the $61 million the movie has grossed since its release and it's cult-like following, millions of families can relate.

Let's face it. Most couples spend more time planning for their vacation than for their retirement, with about the same results: Their money's sucked up by unseen fees; their time is spent minding wayward children; they have far less fun than anticipated; they get bored really fast and long to go back to work where things are more calm and predictable.

Here are five popular destinations that don't live up to the hype, staring with an overcrowded hole ...

No. 5: The Grand Canyon

After driving all day to see the Grand Canyon, you hop out of your minivan and run to the South Rim Trail, where along with 22,314 other spectators, you see a giant, colorful hole.

Breathtaking, isn't it?

Meanwhile, your 5-year-old son wheels his baby sister to a precipice as onlookers, too busy scolding you for being a horrible parent, do nothing.

You avoid disaster through the deft use of violent screams and spend the rest of the day worried that one of your children will plummet to his death.

After about an hour of panicking and overreacting, you chain your kids to a metal rail, stare for five minutes, snap a few pictures, and leave.

If you want to enjoy the Grand Canyon, don't bring little kids. It is, however, a better family spot than our next tourist trap ...

No. 4: Las Vegas family attractions

Before "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" happened, the local chamber of commerce portrayed Sin City as a family vacation destination. Don't believe it.

There's the Aquarium at the Silverton where you can watch the mermaid music show and explain to your kids why the two mermaids rub against each other and pretend to be kissing.

If you take the kids to Vegas in the summer, you can enjoy family heat stroke at a Las Vegas 51's minor league baseball game; there's always Gameworks where you can spend hundreds of dollars on video games . . . that are free at home; and of course, Vegas wouldn't be Vegas without watching lions sleep and lick themselves at the MGM Grand Lion Habitat.

Review: Come to Vegas; leave the kids.

And whatever you do, don't drive down I-15 to visit our next destination ...

No. 3: Hollywood Walk of Fame

Leave it to Hollywood to glamorize and sensationalize something with little substance.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a street with people's names carved in it. That's it.

It's like when Steve and Judy carved their initials into the not-yet-dry cement when the city put a sidewalk on your street, the only difference being Steve and Judy stayed together for two months whereas nobody remembered the Hollywood "star" the following week.